Talk:Nauru

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Imperialist revisionism

"Nauru contains a lesson about the exploitation of resources, and the consequences of going too big, too fast, and not being able to sustain your growth rate."

The tone of this article is kind of ignorant and insulting. The indigenous inhabitants of Nauru were living and thriving on this little island for 2000 years before Europeans showed up and transformed it into what it is today. There is no lesson to be learned from Nauru because what happened to the country was not an accident; this wasn't a failed attempt at "development", it was just a society being pillaged and ransacked by a much more powerful society, a deliberate act of ecological and cultural genocide. The idea of colonialism isn't to build up a small primitive agrarian society into a self-sustaining independent industrial nation; the goal is simply to extract wealth, by way of killing or enslaving the indigenous populace and depleting all of the land's natural resources until there is nothing left. It is a parasitic relationship. This conception of it as a symbiotic relationship is just the product of the entitled racist attitudes of European empires - all that old drivel about "civilizing the savages" and disguising destructive antisocial behavior as social progress and humanitarian generosity. The fact that this article is talking about the destruction of Nauru like it was a failed start-up business just goes to show how deeply this imperialist ideology is ingrained in our cultural attitudes. --Bjorn (talk) 04:55, 14 November 2024 (UTC)